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Intentional Sadhana
Dear Divine Ma, What Do You Want Me to Learn Today? “You have a lot of ego still left to slough off.” Of course, I’m still in this body. Doesn’t Master say the ego is merely the soul attached to the body? Once I’m no longer in this body, ego will be gone,...
Hitting the Eye of the Bird
Dear Divine Ma, What Do You Want Me to Learn Today? “Today is about focus. If you want to make spiritual progress, or really, success in any endeavor, you must learn to give all your attention to what you’re doing. In work and your professional life, one pointed...
Freed While Living
Dear Divine Ma, What Do You Want Me to Learn Today? Why are we so reluctant to put photos of Swamiji on our altar? Well, at least not while he was alive, he didn’t want to be on our altars. He said the other gurus were Self-realized, and he simply was not. Of...
Thank You, Swamiji
Dear Divine Ma, What Do You Want Me to Learn Today? Tomorrow is Swamiji’s Discipleship Day. The day our link to Master took place. If Swamiji had not told Paramhansa Yogananda that he wanted to be his disciple 75 years ago today, Donald Walters never would have...
It IS Up to Me
Dear Divine Ma, What Do You Want Me to Learn Today?What is it that happens that brings You into my meditations? All the ingredients seem always to be the same, everything except perhaps the final result. After Kriyas, and (usually after) Jyoti mudra, my head tilts...
Continuous Love is Devotion
Dear Divine Ma, What Do You Want Me to Learn Today? “Let’s talk about devotion. When you want God to help you with something that is challenging in life, it is easy for you to pray for that help. As they say, ‘In foxholes, there are no atheists.’ But it takes much...